Well, looking at Software Freedom Day, which has somehow managed to  
get itself a logo with virtually no organizational infrastructure, I  
don't see why Code4Lib shouldn't.  I suspect their logo design wasn't  
done by amateurs, however, even if they were volunteers.  Of course  
they have a much larger, global base of  volunteers...

I think it's a cool idea.

Carol



On Sep 19, 2008, at 11:39 PM, Kevin S. Clarke wrote:

> I like the idea.  A real logo would be nice.  My one caveat is I'd
> still like everyone who'd like to have a voice to have one (I like
> voting).  I'd be less in favor of a committee of volunteers to make
> the decision.  I don't know how that would work with a professional
> graphic designer though.  Could they give us several options and open
> it up to a vote?
>
> Kevin
>
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:29 PM, Roy Tennant <[log in to unmask]>  
> wrote:
>> I was in the middle of writing a blog post about Code4Lib going  
>> regional
>> when it hit me -- here we have this incredibly successful brand and  
>> yet we
>> lack a t-shirt. But I guess we lack a t-shirt because we lack a  
>> logo to put
>> on it. The closest we get are the items that decorate our web site.  
>> Are we
>> at the point where we're ready to establish an official graphic  
>> identity,
>> that can grace our web site, journal, conference, etc.? I think so.
>>
>> So here's my proposal: we take some of the money that has been  
>> passed down
>> from conference to conference and we hire a graphic designer to do a
>> professional job of it. Branding is best not left to amateurs. We put
>> together a committee of volunteers to handle it.
>>
>> I know of at least one design firm that I think would do a good  
>> job, since
>> they just designed a t-shirt for OCLC that we really liked, and  
>> they were
>> delighted to work with library coders. See
>> <http://www.sanchezcircuit.com/catalog/>. There are no doubt others  
>> as well.
>>
>> One of the nice things about a logo is that although it establishes  
>> a solid
>> graphic identity, it doesn't really take any organizational  
>> infrastructure
>> to do it, which seems to fit right in with the c4l vibe. So am I  
>> crazy?
>> Stupid? Or right? You decide.
>> Roy
>>
>
>
>
> -- 
> There are two kinds of people in the world: those who believe there
> are two kinds of people and those who know better.

Carol Bean
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